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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15525 on: December 12, 2017, 03:48:27 am »

No Christian really wants to call out another Christian.
As the resident Catholic I'd like to chime in here and say that Luther was an antisemitic, bigoted, kill-the-poor thunderstorm-fearing yellowbelly, while Henry VIII. was a horny bastard who should've been given the Louis XVI. treatment. And don't even get me started on Mormons.

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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15526 on: December 12, 2017, 07:59:31 am »

No Christian really wants to call out another Christian.
As the resident Catholic I'd like to chime in here and say that Luther was an antisemitic, bigoted, kill-the-poor thunderstorm-fearing yellowbelly, while Henry VIII. was a horny bastard who should've been given the Louis XVI. treatment. And don't even get me started on Mormons.

Throwing stones in glass houses, Helgoland...
It's called taking the piss - are you familiar with the concept? I thought the Mormon comment would've been enough to tip anyone off.
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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15527 on: December 12, 2017, 08:24:00 am »

"animus" can also mean "hostility", though.  Yeah I'd sooner use it to describe a golem's motivation, but that's an unrelated "animus".
I basically never see it used as anything except indicating hostility, heh. Y'all mentioning it reminded me animus/anima is a thing (and also reminds me piers anthony exists, so damn the both of you yesthisisajoke. barely.), but I've never thought of that usage as the primary one. Discussion of metaphysical animating forces doesn't seem to come up as often as fancy terms for disliking people...

Any case, wierd had it, more or less. Way to rephrase it is that A* folks have roughly as much reason to be pissed off and swearing at any religious group as they do at christians or christians do at non-christians, since with rare exception all of the latter lot shit on the first about as hard.

It's fairly expected that a secular inclined individual will be roughly as likely as a non-secular one to be spitting religiously charged vulgarities, basically. Reasons for intergroup hostility (and by extension slurs based on religious belief in one way or another) on religious grounds don't exactly reduce in either direction just because one isn't particularly religion inclined or the other isn't part of the local majority religion,* heh.

... also @helg, I think I like it, too. It's kinda' annoying to refer to atheists and agnostics at the same time given most shared descriptors you could use are invalidated by one lot or another, so letter + wildcard is a good bit lazier quicker and easier. Dunno if it's used much or not, that post was the first time I got fed up enough with trying to remember an appropriate one to use the shorthand.

* Though, that said, from what I understand about what minority status tends to do to societal rampancy it probably does reduce friction between them and other demographics fairly often. Religious group keeping their head down isn't quite as likely to be pissing off or pissing on someone, least so long as no one's latched on to them as a scapegoat or somethin'.

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Anywaaaaay. Today's the day we get to find out if alabama really does prefer pedophilia to democrat party affiliation. Given how wack the polling seems to be, it could be an interesting day, one way or another.
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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15528 on: December 12, 2017, 09:56:47 am »

Every time I see A* I read "A-Star" like "Sagitarrius A*" and thus conclude that the various folks who don't want to have a religion but still feel the need to answer the question--when the correct move is not to play, answering a broken question is not necessary--are infected with brainbugs from the last time Sag A* had an active accretion disc.
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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15529 on: December 12, 2017, 02:35:11 pm »

Every time I see A* I read "A-Star" like "Sagitarrius A*" and thus conclude that the various folks who don't want to have a religion but still feel the need to answer the question--when the correct move is not to play, answering a broken question is not necessary--are infected with brainbugs from the last time Sag A* had an active accretion disc.

See, I read A* and think of the search algorithm, so I'm even more confused at this moment.
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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15530 on: December 12, 2017, 04:25:58 pm »

https://www.trumpisnotabovethelaw.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response/search/

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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15531 on: December 12, 2017, 04:36:08 pm »

I get the visual metaphor they were going for in the logo, but it sort of looks like The Trumps divided by The Law with the line there.

Wouldn't be surprised if protests started springing up within a half hour of the news going out, given how fast word travels these days.
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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15532 on: December 12, 2017, 06:22:57 pm »

Anywaaaaay. Today's the day we get to find out if alabama really does prefer pedophilia to democrat party affiliation. Given how wack the polling seems to be, it could be an interesting day, one way or another.

40 minutes till poll closing time.

According to Politico, Roy Moore was down by 4 percent. Let's see what happens.
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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15534 on: December 12, 2017, 06:32:17 pm »

Anywaaaaay. Today's the day we get to find out if alabama really does prefer pedophilia to democrat party affiliation. Given how wack the polling seems to be, it could be an interesting day, one way or another.

40 minutes till poll closing time.

According to Politico, Roy Moore was down by 4 percent. Let's see what happens.

You mean an hour and a half from now. And the polls have been all over the place, so, I wouldn't go by the polls. About the only takeaway from those is that it's going to be a competitive one.
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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15535 on: December 12, 2017, 06:34:23 pm »

Also, it's been ruled last minute that Alabama will be allowed to delete all records of electronic voting for...well, I'm sure you know why, since they've declined to say why. Trumpist Democracy rears its head again.
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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15536 on: December 12, 2017, 06:36:56 pm »

Anywaaaaay. Today's the day we get to find out if alabama really does prefer pedophilia to democrat party affiliation. Given how wack the polling seems to be, it could be an interesting day, one way or another.

40 minutes till poll closing time.

According to Politico, Roy Moore was down by 4 percent. Let's see what happens.

You mean an hour and a half from now. And the polls have been all over the place, so, I wouldn't go by the polls. About the only takeaway from those is that it's going to be a competitive one.

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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15537 on: December 12, 2017, 06:42:27 pm »

Also, it's been ruled last minute that Alabama will be allowed to delete all records of electronic voting for...well, I'm sure you know why, since they've declined to say why. Trumpist Democracy rears its head again.

It's about transparency and making sure there is an actual record in case tampering is suspected or either side wants to do a recount, not about voter suppression. This specific case is anyway and would actually apply to any other state.

Anywaaaaay. Today's the day we get to find out if alabama really does prefer pedophilia to democrat party affiliation. Given how wack the polling seems to be, it could be an interesting day, one way or another.

40 minutes till poll closing time.

According to Politico, Roy Moore was down by 4 percent. Let's see what happens.

You mean an hour and a half from now. And the polls have been all over the place, so, I wouldn't go by the polls. About the only takeaway from those is that it's going to be a competitive one.

Internet said 40m :[]

My faith is shattered. Does anyone have any Richard Dawkins I can borrow?

Link to whatever says 40 min? Maybe you were thinking about exit polls. and not sure what evolution has to do with voting....
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Re: AmeriPol: Senate passes tax 'reform', now attempting to cross streams with House
« Reply #15538 on: December 12, 2017, 06:46:18 pm »

I think he was being silly. He’s a person of faith, faith shattered, Dawkins is a prominent atheist, thus the first port of call for his now faithless existence.

My interpretation, at least.
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« Reply #15539 on: December 12, 2017, 06:48:54 pm »

I know him better as an author on evolution rather than being an atheist, which is probably why I didn't make the connection.
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